Improvement in the manufacture of cigarettes



S. SHUCK.

Manufacture of Cigarettes.

No. 58,686. Patented Oct. 9, 1866.

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SAMUEL SHUCK, OF BEDFORD, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CIGARETTES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 58,686, dated October9, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL SnUcK, of Bedford, in the county of Bedfordand State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in the h'lanufacture of Cigars or Cigarettes, and in theimplements used in the manufacture thereof; and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full and exact description thereof, referencebeinghad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of referencemarked thereon.

My invention relates to the manufacture of that class of cigars orcigarettes made of finecut or ground tobacco inclosed in a paperwrapper, or wrapper of other suitable material, in the form of acylindrical or conical tube. WVhile I do not limit myself to a paperwrapper, I consider a proper quality of tissuepaper more suitable thanany other material, the same being colored in imitation of tobacco byextract of coffee or other suitable coloringmatter.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a pattern, ofpasteboard or other suitable material, by which the wrappers are cut.Fig. 2 represents a plate of pasteboard, wood, or other suitablematerial, around which the wrapper is folded and pasted. Fig. 3 is ahinged plate, which may be made of wood, metal, or pasteboard, used forfolding and pasting the wrapper over the forming-plate represented inFig. 2. A A is the hinge of said plate, which may be con venientl y madeby pasting to the surface of the two parts B and B a sheet of muslin,canvas, or other flexible material. Fig. 4 is a sectional View of a thinmetal tube, in which the. core of the cigar is formed, with the pistonused in forming the same and in pushing it outof the tube and into thewrapper, as will be hereinafter more fully described.

O is the tube; D, the piston, and E is the fine-cut tobacco in the tube,which forms the core of the cigar. F F show a cylindrical wrapper drawnover the tube 0, and folded over and pasted at the upper end,f, ready toreceive the core as the same is pushed out of the tube by the piston,carrying the wrapper with it.

The process of making cigars or cigarettes by means of theabove-described implements is as follows: A suitable number of wrappersare first cut out by means of the pattern rep resented by Fig. 1. Awrapper is then laid on the hinged plate, Fig. 3, the same being open,so that the upper edge of the wrapper will be flush with the upperedgeof the partB. The forming-plate, Fig. 2, is then laid on the center(longitudinally) of the wrapper. The lower edge of the wrapper is thenfolded up over the forming-plate, and held by the finger while a littlegum-arabic or other suitable mucilage is applied by means of a smallcamelhair brush along the upper edge of the wrapper. The forming-plate,with the wrapper, is then moved down till the upper edge of said plateis on a line with the hinge. Then the part B of the hinged plate isfolded over onto the part B, and slightly pressed with the fingers,which unites the edges of the wrapper over the forming-plate by means ofthe paste. The forming-plate is then withdrawn and the wrapper laidaside to dry.

The wrapper is filled with the fine-cut or core as follows: A wrapper isdrawn over the tube, and the end folded and pasted, as shown at f. Thetube is then set vertically on the table, the end f being down, and asufficient quantity of fine-cut tobacco to form the coreis inserted atthe other end and rammed sufficiently by the piston. One end of thepiston should be provided with a gumelastio plug or washer, 6, so thatit will readily conform to any inequalities in the inner surface of thetube. The tube being thus filled and rammed, the core is pushed out bymeans of the piston, carrying with it the wrapper, in which the corebecomes inclosed as it passes out of the tube. The open end of thewrapperis then closed by twisting and pasting, or inserting a moutlnpiece of wood or other suitable material. The cigar is then rolled onthe table until the core becomes sufficiently loose for smoking. If nomouth-piece is attached in makingthe cigar, an ordinary month-pieceshould be used in smok ing.

The following modification of the mode of filling the wrapper with thefine-cut tobacco or core, but not differing essentially in principle,may also be practiced in carrying my invention into effect: Take a thinmetal tube about seven inches long, the size of the cigar, and a littlelarger at one end than the other, and then take a tin box about the sizeand form of a shoe-blacking box, with the bottom a little concave, andcut a round hole in the center of said bottom the size of the smallerend of said tube, and solder said end of the tube in said hole. Thenfill the box with finecut tobacco and put on the lid; then put the paperwrapper on the tube, as hereinbefore described. Hold the tube andwrapper with the left hand and the upper part of the tube with the righthand, and move the tube up and down in the wrapper. The tobacco willfall gently into the wrapper through the tube, and the cigar should begently pressed by the left hand as it is formed. The tube serves to packthe tobacco sutficiently tight in the wrapper, without the use of apiston, by moving up and down in the wrapper, as described.

Having thus described my invention and the mode of carrying it intoeffect, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The method herein described of filling a wrapper withfine-cut tobaccoby means of a tube and piston, the wrapper being drawn over the tube andreceiving the core as the sameis pushed out of the tube by the piston,substantially as shown and described.

2. The method herein described of forming the wrapper preparatory tofilling, by means of the forming-plate, Fig. 2, and the hinged plate,Fig. 3, substantially as described.

3. The within-described method of filling and packing the wrapper, byinserting the fine-cut tobacco through a tube inclosed in the wrapperand moving the said tube up and down in the wrapper during the processof filling, as described.

SAML; SHUGK.

